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DOCUMENT #2: Russophobia (April 6, 1943)
DOCUMENT #2: Russophobia (April 6, 1943)
The U.S. Foreign Office wrote a report on the attitudes held by Americans toward the Soviet Union. This document highlights an anti-Communist campaign written in the newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.
The U.S. Foreign Office wrote a report on the attitudes held by Americans toward the Soviet Union. This document highlights an anti-Communist campaign written in the newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.
…the campaign is an attempt to prove that the United Nations owe no loyalty and very little gratitude to Soviet Russia. The USSR is represented as been an aggressive and almost amoral[1] power. It is pointed out that she only entered the war because of Hitler’s attack, and was not in any way opposed to Germany or Fascism on moral grounds. “A starkly realistic attitude” sees Russia as an equal menace to world security with Germany. As evidence of Russia’s aggressive tendencies, attention is drawn to the recent dispute with Poland over boundaries, the absorption of the Baltic states in 1940, and the war with Finland in 1939. As evidence of Russia’s unworthiness, it is pointed out that Russia has not yet even opened a second front in the Pacific…the end of the war in Europe was obviously near and people had to be awakened to the menace of Bolshevism.
Helpful Definitions
[1] Amoral – absence of or lacking in morality
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/G2/cs2/s3.htm
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